he opens hive after hive, blowing a wbiff of smoke upon them, to give the 



bees something else to think 

 about when they seem any way 

 refractory, a projection from the 

 stem of the pipe allowing this to 

 be (ione conveniently. The 

 hives used are of the German 

 bar-frame kind. They open 

 from the back, and each hive is 

 two stories high, so that ample 

 space can be given to the bees 

 when they are storing honey 

 rapidly. The main house is 

 about 150 feet in length, 10 feet 

 high, 10 feet wide, and two tiers 

 of hives are arranged on each 

 side, as shown in the sketch. 



The swarming bag is one of 

 the best things we have seen in 

 bee culture. It is about six 

 feet in length and one foot in 

 diameter, and formed of alter- 

 nate lengths of calico and mos- 

 qiiito netting, each length having 

 a ring of cane inside to hold out 

 the bag, as shown in the sketch. 

 When the bees are about to 

 swarm, the bag is fastened on to 

 the front of the hive, and the 



other end fastened to a stake. When the queen emerges she bounds up utto 



the upper end of the bag, and 



is quickly surrounded by her 



followers. Thus the swarm 



is faiJtiired mth ease, the 



alternate breadths of mos- 

 quito netting and calico mak- 

 ing the interior hght and 



enticing for the bees to enter 



and cluster. They are then 



shaken into a bar-frame hive. 

 The queen breeding hives 



are much smaller than the 



othei-s, and are arranged at 



distances of about twenty 



feet apart alongside the 



fences. Two or three frames 



of brood comb are put into 



each hive, with a queen cell 



coming to maturity. When 



tlie queen bee hatches out of 



the cell she makes a flight 



(the only flight of her life) in order to meet a drone or male bee. She is 



then fertilized, and becomes the mother and queen of a family, laying egg» 



CENTEIFUGAL MACHINE, SHOWING INSIDE. 



THE QUEEN CAGE. 



